Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
JEAN COCTEAUThe poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths.
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Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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I’ve always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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